Analytical Research Forum 2021 (ARF21)

A.P. de Silva’s learning and teaching experiences occurred at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and at the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He introduced molecular logic as an experimental field and established the generality of the luminescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) sensor/switch principle. He also contributed to the chemistry module of the market-leading point-of-care blood gas/electrolyte analyzer, which has sales of 150 M USD for human use (OPTITM) and 400 M USD for veterinary use (VetstatTM) so far. He wrote the book ‘Molecular Logic-based Computation’ which is also available in Chinese and in Japanese.

Amy Managh is a Lecturer in Chemistry at Loughborough University.  She graduated with a PhD in analytical chemistry from Loughborough University in 2015, which she followed by completing an Enterprise Fellowship at the same institution, before joining the academic staff.  Her research focusses on the development and application of enabling technologies for trace elemental measurement.  She worked with industry to develop a leading laser ablation platform, which she is currently using to image the distribution of metallodrugs and microscopic anomalies in tissue.

Dr Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Engineering at the University of Glasgow.  Caroline graduated in applied physics and chemistry from the ESPCI in Paris in 2004. She holds a DEA in analytical chemistry from the Université Paris VI and an MSc in forensic science from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She obtained her PhD in Environmental Engineering in 2010 in the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Queen’s University Belfast.
She joined the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer in 2012, after carrying out her postdoctoral research in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. She works at the boundary between science and engineering to tackle some of the World’s most pressing environmental challenges such as pollution and water scarcity. She has a particular interest in environmental biotechnologies. She believes that developing and deploying tools to help rational design of low-energy, low-resource bioprocesses for environmental engineering will have long-term impact on climate change mitigation and the circular economy agenda. As an enthusiastic analytical chemist, her research employs states of the art analytical, spectroscopic and statistical approaches to support the development of engineered systems and monitor how they remove organic contaminants. She has developed solid partnerships with industry and stakeholders such as WSP, Arup, ERS remediation, NHS Island and Highland and Scottish Water. Her research has been funded by the UKRI, the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the European Union.
Caroline is also an active player in issues around diversity and inclusion in STEM. She is co-project director on the VisNET project and a member of the TIGERs in STEMM. 
Caroline is an elected member of the RSC’s Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division (ESED)’s Council and the RSC Environmental Chemistry Group Committee. She is also a member of the committee for the Environmental and Food Analysis Special Interest Group of the British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS).

Hayley recently completed a PhD in Archaeological Chemistry at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, working on a collaborative project with Diamond Light Source and the Mary Rose Trust. Her research looked at the corrosion and conservation of the Mary Rose cast iron cannonball collection, with a focus on the application and development of synchrotron-based techniques to archaeological material. Prior to her PhD, Hayley did an MChem in Chemistry at Warwick University where she specialised in analytical chemistry.

Prof Nick Stone holds the position of Professor of Biomedical Imaging and Biosensing at the University of Exeter and NHS Consultant Clinical Scientist at Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is an internationally recognised leader in biomedical applications of vibrational spectroscopy (Raman and IR), with over £12M current funding, he leads three first in human studies. He has worked at the interface in between Physics and Medicine for around 30 years, and published over 200 peer reviewed publications (h-52).